Eat it Cubs and Red Sox fans.
I'm not a Yankee fan, as I have not been paying close attention to baseball long enough to have a team affiliation. This opinion is rooted in pure Buffalo pride and bitterness.
Perhaps Webster said it best, in his definition of "tradition:"
"Tra?adi?ation. noun. The handing down of information, beliefs and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation to another without written instruction."
If the loss of both championship series by the Cubs and Red Sox isn't a passing of tradition, I don't know what is.
At least your cities have championships in something. Mine has none. Quit your complaining.
Speaking of Buffalo's pain, how come we were never brought into the powerhouse of football game franchises, John Elway's Quarterback? That game was epic. Every odd play or so one of your players would run at about 10 times the speed of the other guys, and you could just lap them and play with them until you scored a touchdown. Truly underrated.
OK, raise your hands if you didn't think Barry Bonds or Jason Giambi wasn't taking something to help with their muscle definition. Just now, the feds are looking into their nutritionists to see if they had supplied them with a previously undetectable steroid. This is more of a track and field issue, as they are the prime focus of the investigation, but it is small wonder that names like Bonds, Giambi, and Bill Romanowski showed up.
Romo on steroids? No way!
I picked the Marlins to go to the World Series. There, I said it. Also, they are undefeated in all of their postseason matchups. Yes, Pro Player Stadium, the bastion of baseball's pride and history.
You can see just how much the Yankees rely on Mariano Rivera. I myself had thought that he had hit a wall after that game seven in 2000 against the Diamondbacks. Instead, in the American League Championship Series against the Red Sox, he pitched eight scoreless innings in six days, including three in game seven. I stand corrected.
Welcome back Travis Henry. 167 yards on 32 carries is just what the Buffalo offense needed, and the kid stepped up. The offensive line, which had been very offensive, finally brought the toughness and grit seen last year in the running attack and got some holes to open up. Josh Reed deserves some acknowledgement as well, even though all he had to do was catch the ball.
I'd like to see UB play as well against Ohio as they did against Marhsall, but I feel I'd need to see it to believe it. I actually felt excitement at that Marshall game. That is what this program needs. They don't need to win every game, they just need to compete. 59-3 blowouts of this school will destroy everything they've tried to create. 26-16 games, actual games of competition, will get students thinking that maybe we have a chance from week to week.
